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mhowson:
Hey,

I work as Stage Manager for high school productions, which at our high school means renting out the local theatre in the world, getting some of the biggest ego-ed dancers you will ever meet and a show produced to professional standards without - well, without the money, frankly - which makes forms my friend. I've enclosed a PDF of my 'Show Survival Kit', which compromises:


* Cast Contact Form
* Cast Illness and Allergy Form
* Cast Register
* Props Register with accompanying key to Check Points
* Cast Schedule Conflicts Form
* Four different 'notepad' forms I use
* Sound and light cue planning sheets
Accompanied with my annotated scripts, these enabled me to single handedly SM a show with a cast of nearing 50, plus primary school kids, with only 2 stage crew.

Hope this helps!

zayit shachor:
I like having as much paperwork as possible for each show I do in one Excel worksheet.  Here's my template; a lot of these forms have been borrowed and modified from documents posted to this very board, but it's been a while so unfortunately I don't remember who created each form.

The worksheet includes:

Contact sheet
Calendar (for "at-a-glance" schedules)
Daily schedule
Scene breakdown
Props tracking
Sign-in sheet
Run sheet
Shift plot
Props preset
Cut list
Line notes
Phone card

Some of the docs can do some cool things: in the calendar, if you change one date it automatically updates the following dates; for phone cards, if you enter info in the top left card all the others will fill in.

Enjoy, and feel free to PM me with any questions.

Jessie_K:
This is an interesting idea.  I had never thought of combining documents this way.  Thanks to both of you for sharing.

themikejones:

--- Quote from: zayit shachor on May 31, 2008, 12:27 am ---I like having as much paperwork as possible for each show I do in one Excel worksheet. 

--- End quote ---

What a great idea!   Thanks so much for sharing!

MatthewShiner:
I think it is interesting to combine the documents in form . . . my only concern is if you are more then a one person team, how to update and access the form could be problematic.

How do you handle multiple users of the same document????

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